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If you have ever designed a custom list then you may already felt the pain of creating the schema of it and writing the whole CAML. Sometimes, we just need to enhance an already existing list by creating our own custom list for which we want to copy the existing schema and do the necessary changes.

You can retrieve the schema of any list by using the owssvr.dll call from your browser. Following is the syntax

4. Install the feature by using stsadm command line tool.
5. Activate it.
6. Navigate to any list, Document Library, Tasks list etc. and click Settings, and then click Display Schema.
You will get the schema of that list. Copy it and enjoy!